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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"de Troyes"”.
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Narrative design and heroic definition in Chretien de Troyes' Erec et Enide
<p>Little is known about Chrétien de Troyes the man. Whatever is said about him as an individual or about the order and date of his writings is entirely a matter of conjecture, for there is virtually no evidence except for the little offered by the poems themselves. While Chrétien's life's history …
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Rape and Male Identity in Arthurian Romance, Chrétien de Troyes to Marion Zimmer Bradley
… Arthurian literature from the 12th century to modern day. I focus on three works: Chrétien de Troyes Erec et Enide, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon. In each, I examine the five functions of troped rape — the establishing of military prowess, the …
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Para una antropología de lo imaginario en "Le chevalier de la Charrette" de Chrétien de Troyes
CHRETIEN DE TROYES SE MUESTRA EN "LE CHEVALIER DE LA CHARRETTE" COHERENTE CON LOS PRINCIPIOS MORALES QUE HA DEFENDIDO A LO LARGO DE SUS NOVELAS. SU OPOSICION A LA HISTORIA ENTREGADA POR SU MECENAS, LA CONDESA MARIA DE CHAMPAÑA, NO SOLO ES REAL Y AFECTA A LO MAS PROFUNDO DE SU PSIQUE DESPERTANDO SUS …
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Behold thy doom is mine: The evolution of Guinevere in the eorks of Chrétien de Troyes, Sir Thomas Malory, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson
… <em>The Knight of the Cart</em> by Chrétien de Troyes, <em>Le Morte d’Arthur</em> by Sir Thomas Malory, and <em>The Idylls of the King</em> by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. In addition, this thesis has drawn upon literary criticism, including that of Maureen Fries and Norris J. Lacy, in proving how …
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"Redefining Gender Through the Arena of the Male Body: The Reception of Thomas's Tristan in the Old French ""Le Chevalier De La Charette"" and the Old Icelandic ""Saga Af Tristram Ok Isodd"
… different places in the medieval canon, Chretien de Troyes' Le Chevalier de la Charette and the Old Icelandic Saga af Tristram ok Isodd. Both of these texts are responses to the Old French Tristan romance and both deny the sexual ambiguity of the Tristan figure by reconfiguring the equation of …
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An Almost Threesome: Erotic Love Triangles and Authorial Choice in Malory’s Le Morte D’ Arthur
… consensus that when translating Chretien de Troyes’ romance of the glorious King Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory, in his <em>Le Morte Darthur</em>, approaches the narrative of Sir Lancelot with the unwavering attitude that Lancelot must not only sustain the status of Arthur’s most revered knight …
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Poética de la busca en la literatura medieval francesa
Desde los orígenes de la literatura occidental, la Busca de una persona, un lugar, un animal o un objeto ha llenado de sentido miles de relatos, comenzando por la Odisea de Homero, la Eneida de Virgilio o las historias de Píramo y Tisbe, Orfeo y Euridice de las Metamorfosis de Ovidio, despertando y …
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Activités pilotes pour un programme d'enseignement de l'anglais L2 en FAD en France pour de futurs ingénieurs
À l’Université de Technologie de Troyes, 40% des futurs ingénieurs peinent à graduer, faute de compétence suffisante en anglais, et leur production orale ressort comme la principale faiblesse. Le but de ce projet était de développer des activités d’apprentissage de l’anglais L2 en FAD, qui seraient …
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Madmen and mad money: psychological disability and economics in medieval and early modern literature
In medieval and early modern literature, people with psychological disabilities are commonly represented as nuisances, monsters, and pitiable wretches. This ableist paradigm is partly attributable to the fact that ‘mad’ characters evoke economic anxieties rooted in the socioeconomic climate of the …
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Suspended Endings: The Mechanics of Medieval Continuation in the Perceval Continuations
… – but it is one which does not know any precise definition. Despite the existence of important texts which take the form of what we nominally call ‘Continuation’, such as Le Roman de la Rose, Le Chevalier de la Charrette and of course the Perceval Continuations, to date no work exists which …
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Courtly constraints: clothing, gifts and honour in Medieval Romance
By investigating three texts, namely Chrétien de Troyes' Erec and Enide, Geoffrey Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale", and the anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, I seek to demonstrate how clothing, honour, gender and gifts shape the experiences of the characters as they find their social place, and …
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Mourning, Melancholia, and Masculinity in Medieval Literature
… in medieval literature, expanding the current understanding of masculinity in the Middle Ages by investigating both the authenticity and affective nature of grief among aristocratic males. My focus is on the pattern of bereavement that surfaces across genres and that has most often been absorbed …
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Courtship, Loe, and Marriage in Othello: Shakespeare's Mockery of Courtly Love
… of power is another issue that critics often deconstruct, yet this concept is also linked to the principles of courtly love. Within the courtly love tradition men were often submissive to women—in Chretien de Troyes' Lancelot and Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale," men tended to bend …
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Hoc Est Corpus Meum: The Eucharist in Twelfth-Century Literature
… period in which many eucharistic doctrines were debated and affirmed, literary scholars have given very little attention to the concurrent emergence of eucharistic themes in twelfth-century literature. This is unfortunate, since the Eucharist emerges as an intriguing motif, appearing in fantastic …